21 Va. App. 445 - Garcia v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 2006
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eckhart v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 173 - Hanson v. Commonwealth · Fuller v. Commonwealth · Manetta v. Commonwealth · Whitten v. McClelland
Most-quoted passages
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“does not operate to exclude evidence of a statement, request, or message offeredfor the mere purpose of explaining or throwing light on the conduct of the person to whom it was made. The evidence was admitted not for the purpose of showing the [truth or falsity of the statement] but for the purpose of showing the reason for the. [witness’s] action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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